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Eastern Michigan Eagles men's basketball
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The Eastern Michigan Eagles mens basketball team represents Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The team currently competes in the West division of the Mid-American Conference and they have appeared in four NCAA Division I tournaments and have a 3–4 record, tied for third best among Michigan colleges. They reached the Sweet Sixteen in the 1991 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Tournament, EMU has competed in the MAC since joining in 1972, and previously competed in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The team last played in the NCAA tournament in 1998, the Eagles are currently coached by Rob Murphy. The Eagles have appeared in four NCAA Division I Tournaments, Coach Ben Braun led Eastern Michigan to their first three NCAA Division I tournament appearances during his 11-year tenure. The Eagles have appeared in one National Invitation Tournament, the Eagles have appeared in the College Basketball Invitational one time. The Eagles have appeared in one CollegeInsider. com Postseason Tournament, the Eagles have appeared in the NCAA Division II Tournament one time. EMU reached the Final Four of the 1972 NCAA College Division National Championship, led by All-American George Gervin, grantham 2006 Carlos Medlock 2007 Brandon Bowdry 2016 James Thompson IV2016 Tim Bond Dec.28,2003 John Bowler Nov.10,2006 Carlos Medlock Jan. During his EMU tenure he was named Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year three times, directed the basketball team to Mid-American Conference and MAC Tournament Championships three times. Led EMU to three NCAA post-season tournament appearances, including a Sweet 16 appearance in 1990–91, also coached the 1994–95 team to EMUs first-ever National Invitation Tournament. Following the departure of Ben Braun to California, Eastern Michigan hired Milton Barnes, he would spend four season as a head coach, in 2001, EMU hired Jim Boone to lead its basketball program. Boone compiled a 48–96 record in 5 seasons at the helm, Ypsilanti native and EMU graduate Charles Ramsey was hired following the 2005 season. In his first game as coach, Ramsey pulled off an upset over a Ben Braun coached California team. After a 68–118 record in six years at the helm, EMU would fire Ramsey after the 2010–11 basketball season, Rob Murphy, a Detroit native was hired in the spring of 2011 to take over for Charles Ramsey. Prior to EMU, Murphy spent seven years as an assistant coach at Syracuse under Jim Boeheim, in his first season, Murphy would lead the Eagles to a 14–18 record. 1984 Fred Cofield- Field Goals Attempted Earl Boykins- Field Goals Made Earl Boykins- Field Goal Attempts 1998 Field Goals Made Eastern Michigan official athletic website Basketball reference

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Ypsilanti, Michigan
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Ypsilanti, commonly shortened to Ypsi, is a city in Washtenaw County in the U. S. state of Michigan, perhaps best known as the home of Eastern Michigan University. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,435. The city is bounded to the north by Superior Township and on the west, south, Ypsilanti is located 6 miles east of Ann Arbor and about 18 miles west of the Detroit city limits. S. It was incorporated into the Territory of Michigan as the village Woodruffs Grove, a separate community a short distance away on the west side of the river was established in 1825 under the name Ypsilanti, after Demetrios Ypsilantis, a hero in the Greek War of Independence. Woodruffs Grove changed its name to Ypsilanti in 1829, the year its namesake effectively won the Greek war, a bust of Demetrios Ypsilantis by Greek sculptor Christopher Nastos stands between a Greek and a US flag at the base of the landmark Ypsilanti Water Tower. Ypsilanti has played an important role in the automobile industry, from 1920 to 1922, Apex Motors produced the ACE car. It was in Ypsilanti that Preston Tucker designed and built the prototypes for his Tucker 48, tuckers story was related in the film Tucker, The Man and His Dream, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. In 1945, Henry J. Kaiser and Joseph W. Frazer bought the nearby Willow Run B-24 Liberator bomber plant from Ford Motor Company, and started to make Kaiser and Frazer model cars in 1947. The last Kaiser car made in Ypsilanti rolled off the line in 1953. General Motors purchased the Kaiser Frazer plant, and converted it into its Hydramatic Division, the GM Powertrain Division ceased production at this facility in 2010. Ypsilanti is also the location of the last Hudson automobile dealership, today, the former dealership is the site of the Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Collection. The museum is the home to an original Fabulous Hudson Hornet race car, in the early 1970s, along with neighboring city of Ann Arbor, the citizens reduced the penalty for the use and sale of marijuana to $5. When Ypsilanti prosecuted a man possessing 100 pounds of cannabis under state law, the trial judge declared the ordinances requirement that Ypsilanti prosecute only under city law unenforceable. An appeal court upheld the judges ruling. Later, Ypsilanti City Council, using its power of codification, in 1979, Faz Husain was elected to the Ypsilanti city council, the first Muslim and the first native of India to win elected office in Michigan. In the 1990s Ypsilanti became the first city in Michigan to pass a living wage ordinance, two ballot measures to repeal the ordinance were led and bankrolled by conservatives, including Tom Monaghan. Both measures failed, the second by a larger percentage than the first, the award provides for an economic development consultant to assist Ypsilanti in developing a growth and job creation strategy for the downtown area. 1959 – Eastern Michigan becomes a university 1960 – Tom Monaghan founds Dominos Pizza as DomiNicks Pizza at 507 W. Cross St and he was convicted in 1969, but of only one of the murders

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Detroit Athletic Club
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The Detroit Athletic Club is a private social club and athletic club located in the heart of Detroits theater, sports, and entertainment district. It is located across the street from Detroits historic Music Hall, the clubhouse was designed by Albert Kahn and inspired by Romes Palazzo Farnese. It maintains reciprocal agreements for their members at other clubs worldwide. It contains full-service athletic facilities, pools, restaurants, ballrooms, members include businessmen of all types as well as professional athletes. Ty Cobb is among the athletes to have been a member of the DAC, the building is visible beyond center field from Comerica Park. The Detroit Athletic Club was founded in 1887 to encourage athletic activities. He felt that the rich new titans of the automobile industry spent too much time in the Woodward Avenue pubs. He thought they needed a club commensurate with this stature, on January 4,1913, Joy and 108 other leading Detroit citizens came together to reorient the Detroit Athletic Club. Joy and his colleagues selected Detroits most accomplished architect, Albert Kahn, Kahn, in 1912, had visited Italy and was inspired by the buildings he saw there. Two of Detroits most impressive current downtown edifices—the Detroit Athletic Club, in the 1990s, the membership devoted substantial fund to a major refurbishing of the attractive building. Over the years, the Detroit Athletic Club has provided financial assistance, at the 1956 U. S. Olympic Team Trials, springboard divers Jeanne Stunyo and Mackenzie High School graduate Barbara Gilders-Dudeck were sponsored by the DAC. Stunyo and Gilders-Dudeck qualified for the Summer Olympic Games in Melbourne, at the Games, Jeanne Stunyo won the springboard diving silver medal, and Barbara Gilders-Dudeck finished in fourth place - less than one point from a bronze medal. A. Duncan Carse created paintings to decorate the Detroit Athletic Club, the paintings were covered at the club but they were on show again after a remodeling of the club in 1999. List of American gentlemens clubs 1956 Summer Olympics Sports in Detroit Hill, AIA Detroit, The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture. Meyer, Katherine Mattingly and Martin C. P. McElroy with Introduction by W. Hawkins Ferry, cS1 maint, Multiple names, authors list Sobocinski, Melanie Grunow. Detroit and Rome, building on the past, regents of the University of Michigan

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Detroit
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Detroit is the most populous city in the U. S. state of Michigan, the fourth-largest city in the Midwest and the largest city on the United States–Canada border. It is the seat of Wayne County, the most populous county in the state, the municipality of Detroit had a 2015 estimated population of 677,116, making it the 21st-most populous city in the United States. Roughly one-half of Michigans population lives in Metro Detroit alone, the Detroit–Windsor area, a commercial link straddling the Canada–U. S. Border, has a population of about 5.7 million. Detroit is a port on the Detroit River, a strait that connects the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The Detroit Metropolitan Airport is among the most important hubs in the United States, the City of Detroit anchors the second-largest economic region in the Midwest, behind Chicago, and the thirteenth-largest in the United States. Detroit and its neighboring Canadian city Windsor are connected through a tunnel and various bridges, Detroit was founded on July 24,1701 by the French explorer and adventurer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and a party of settlers. During the 19th century, it became an important industrial hub at the center of the Great Lakes region, with expansion of the American automobile industry in the early 20th century, the Detroit area emerged as a significant metropolitan region within the United States. The city became the fourth-largest in the country for a period, in the 1950s and 1960s, suburban expansion continued with construction of a regional freeway system. A great portion of Detroits public transport was abandoned in favour of becoming a city in the post-war period. Due to industrial restructuring and loss of jobs in the auto industry, between 2000 and 2010 the citys population fell by 25 percent, changing its ranking from the nations 10th-largest city to 18th. In 2010, the city had a population of 713,777 and this resulted from suburbanization, corruption, industrial restructuring and the decline of Detroits auto industry. In 2013, the state of Michigan declared an emergency for the city. Detroit has experienced urban decay as its population and jobs have shifted to its suburbs or elsewhere, conservation efforts managed to save many architectural pieces since the 2000s and allowed several large-scale revitalisations. More recently, the population of Downtown Detroit, Midtown Detroit, paleo-Indian people inhabited areas near Detroit as early as 11,000 years ago. In the 17th century, the region was inhabited by Huron, Odawa, Potawatomi, for the next hundred years, virtually no British, colonist, or French action was contemplated without consultation with, or consideration of the Iroquois likely response. When the French and Indian War evicted the Kingdom of France from Canada, the 1798 raids and resultant 1799 decisive Sullivan Expedition reopened the Ohio Country to westward emigration, which began almost immediately, and by 1800 white settlers were pouring westwards. By 1773, the population of Detroit was 1,400, by 1778, its population was up to 2,144 and it was the third-largest city in the Province of Quebec

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Adrian College
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Adrian College is a private, co-educational liberal arts college conferring bachelors degrees in 40 academic majors and programs. The college is located in the city of Adrian, Michigan, the 100 acre campus contains newly constructed facilities along with historic buildings. The college features a variety of programs as well as a theatre department. Adrian College is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges, the fall 2013-14 student headcount was 1,649 students. The college had its origin as an institute founded by Wesleyan Methodists at Leoni, Michigan. This institution merged with Leoni Seminary, another Methodist school, in 1855 to form Michigan Union College, in 1859, that institution closed and its assets were transferred to Adrian to establish Adrian College. The college was chartered by the Michigan Legislature on March 28,1859, under the first president of the college, in the early stages of the American Civil War the college volunteered itself as a base for the formation of Michigan regiments for the Union side. The current Valade Hall building sits on the site of the base camp for these soldiers. On June 30,2005, Stanley P. Caine retired after 16 years as president of Adrian College, the next day, Jeffrey Docking became Adrian Colleges 17th president, after serving as a vice president at Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania. The details of Adrian Colleges growth since 2005 are chronicled in Dr. Dockings recently published book, Crisis in Education, the college is making renovations and expansions to the Science, Business, Visual Arts, and Performing Arts departments. Greek system, Greek life on campus includes five nationally recognized fraternities, Alpha Tau Omega, Pi Kappa Alpha, Theta Chi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, there are three nationally recognized sororities, Alpha Phi, Alpha Sigma Alpha, and Chi Omega. There is one locally recgonized sorority, Delta Nu Kappa, Adrian College offers over 40 majors and pre-professional programs. It also offers six graduate programs using a unique 4+1 structure for current students, graduate programs exist in, Accounting, Athletic Training, Criminal Justice, Industrial Chemistry, Teacher Education, and Sports Administration and Leadership. Over the past several years eight of the nine buildings were renovated. Institutes are thematic centers focusing on areas of interest supporting the mission of Adrian College, each institute provides programming to students, faculty, staff, and wider community. Adrian College athletic teams, nicknamed the Bulldogs, are part of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the mens NCAA Division III hockey team is a member of the Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association. Adrian College is the college or university to offer womens hockey as a varsity sport in Michigan. In 2011, the College reached an agreement with the federal Department of Educations Office of Civil Rights, the College was found guilty of eleven violations of the law that governs gender equality, and agreed to make several changes to its athletic programs

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Adrian, Michigan
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Adrian is a city in the U. S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Lenawee County. The population was 21,133 at the 2010 census, Adrian lies in Michigans 7th congressional district. Adrian was founded on June 18,1826 by Addison Comstock, promoter of the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad, in 1828 Addisons wife renamed the village to Adrian after the Roman Emperor Hadrian. In the late 19th century through early 20th century Adrian was known as the capital of the world. Throughout this period, Adrian was one of the first fencing manufacturers in the world and its fences were shipped as far as New York, Berlin, Asia, the company sponsored the highly successful Page Fence Giants black baseball team. One of the first motor vehicles, the Lion automobile, was created in Adrian, between 1900 and 1912, Adrian was shaping up to be one of the motor capitals of the world, with three car models manufactured in Adrian during those 12 years. But due to some unfortunate turn of events, it never came to be, the first two were the Murry Motor Car and Lenawee Car, both made by the Church Manufacturing Company. Although the cars were a hit at the 1910 Chicago Automobile show and they sold hundreds of cars, the third car manufactured in Adrian was the Lion made by the Lion Motor Car Company. The Lion was immensely popular and successful, Lion Motor Car Company was taking the lead in the auto industry, however, on June 12,1912, the plant caught on fire, destroyed about 200 cars, and ultimately ended the company. Adrian is approximately 30 miles southwest of Ann Arbor,30 miles southeast of Jackson, a portion of the city is on the border between Adrian Township and Madison Charter Township, although the city is politically independent of both. The citys urban area extends beyond the city limits into both of those townships as well as into nearby Raisin Township and Palmyra Township, Adrian is sometimes referred to as the Maple City due in part to the many sugar maple and other maple tree species found throughout the city. The Adrian High School sports teams are known as the Adrian Maples, Adrians cultural life has connections to the mid-19th century. The Adrian City Band is one of the oldest continuously active community bands in the country, also of historical note is the Croswell Opera House. The Adrian Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1981, Adrian College and Siena Heights University also offer many cultural opportunities. Heritage Park and Trestle Park have extensive mountain bike trails and boardwalks along the river, Trestle Park features a pedestrian walkway along a former railroad trestle. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 8.10 square miles. Many town residents take advantage of this area for boating and recreation, devils Lake, Round Lake, Posey Lake and Wamplers Lake are popular weekend destinations within a few miles. As of the census of 2010, there were 21,133 people,7,831 households, the population density was 2,658.2 inhabitants per square mile

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Eastern Time Zone
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Places that use Eastern Standard Time when observing standard time are 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time. Eastern Daylight Time, when observing daylight saving time DST is 4 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time, in the northern parts of the time zone, on the second Sunday in March, at 2,00 a. m. EST, clocks are advanced to 3,00 a. m. EDT leaving a one-hour gap, on the first Sunday in November, at 2,00 a. m. EDT, clocks are moved back to 1,00 a. m, southern parts of the zone do not observe daylight saving time. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 ruled that daylight saving time would run from the last Sunday of April until the last Sunday in October in the United States, the act was amended to make the first Sunday in April the beginning of daylight saving time as of 1987. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 extended daylight saving time in the United States beginning in 2007. So local times change at 2,00 a. m. EST to 3,00 a. m. EDT on the second Sunday in March, in Canada, the time changes as it does in the United States. However, a handful of communities unofficially observe Eastern Time because they are part of the Columbus, Georgia metropolitan area – Phenix City, Smiths Station, Lanett, and Valley. Florida, All of Florida is in the Eastern Time zone except for the portion of the Florida Panhandle west of the Apalachicola River, as the Eastern–Central zone boundary approaches the Gulf of Mexico, it follows the Bay/Gulf county line. Indiana, All of Indiana observes Eastern Time except for six counties in the Chicago metropolitan area. Kentucky, Roughly, the half of the state, including all of metropolitan Louisville, is in the Eastern Time Zone. Historically the entire state observed Central Time, when daylight saving time was first introduced, the Lower Peninsula remained on DST after it formally ended, effectively re-aligning itself into the Eastern Time Zone. The Upper Peninsula continued to observe Central Time until 1972, when all, Tennessee, Most of the eastern third of Tennessee is legally on Eastern Time. Eastern Time is also used somewhat as a de facto official time for all of the United States, since it includes the capital and the largest city. Major professional sports leagues also post all game times in Eastern time, for example, a game time between two teams from Pacific Time Zone will still be posted in Eastern time. Most cable television and national broadcast networks advertise airing times in Eastern time, national broadcast networks generally have two primary feeds, an eastern feed for Eastern and Central time zones, and a tape-delayed western feed for the Pacific Time Zone. The prime time is set on Eastern and Pacific at 8,00 p. m. with the Central time zone stations receiving the eastern feed at 7,00 p. m. local time. Mountain Time Zone stations receive a separate feed at 7,00 p. m. local time, as Arizona does not observe daylight saving time, during the summer months, it has its own feed at 7,00 p. m. local time

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Bowen Field House
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Bowen Field House is a 5,400 seat multi-purpose arena in Ypsilanti, Michigan on the Eastern Michigan University campus. It opened in 1955 and was home to the Eastern Michigan Eagles mens and womens basketball teams until the Convocation Center opened in 1997 and it currently serves as the home of Eastern Michigan Eagles track and field, Eastern Michigan Eagles wrestling, and Eastern Michigan Eagles gymnastics. EMU brought basketball back to the Field House in November 2013, approximately 1,300 spectators were ushered out of the Field House, and the second half of the game was played in the empty arena. Virtual historic tour of EMU Chronological historic tour of EMU

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Convocation Center (Eastern Michigan University)
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The EMU Convocation Center is a multi-purpose sports and entertainment complex located on Eastern Michigan University’s west campus. Built in 1998 as part of an upgrade initiative, the EMU Convocation Center is a 204,316 square-foot structure that features three user-friendly levels including arena, concourse, and office. The EMU Convocation Center also boasts versatile seating configurations to maximize space usage, the building serves as the home to EMU athletics and also hosts a wide variety of special events including concerts, conferences, graduations, fairs, trade shows, political rallies, and more. Some of our more notable events include Jay-Z, Bob Seger, Bernie Sanders, Ellie Goulding, The Killers, Tiesto, St. Joseph Charity Ball, Harlem Globetrotters, and the WNBA Finals. Construction began in the spring of 1997 and culminated with its opening, December 9,1998. Since its opening, it has served as court for the Eagles mens and womens basketball and volleyball teams. The EMU wrestling team has held several dual meets on the arena floor and it has also served as the site for two Mid-American Conference Championships. EMU hosted the 2000 MAC Gymnastics Championship and the 2002 MAC Wrestling Championship and it has been the host site for four first-round MAC Womens Basketball Tournament games, three first-round MAC Volleyball Tournament games and one first-round game for the mens basketball squad. Along with their commitment to EMU Athletics, it has hosted concerts and it is also the site for EMUs spring and winter commencement ceremonies. Other events have included youth sporting competitions, high school commencements, trade shows, job fairs, conventions, charity and community awareness events, the 204, 316-square-foot facility features three levels and three seating configurations to maximize crowd capacity and space usage. The largest seating capacity is for center-stage entertainment activities, with 9,500 seats available, the capacity for basketball games is approximately 8,800. EMUs athletic administration is located on the level, along with offices for the EMU football. The EMU Sports Information Office, as well as offices for the staff, are located on the office level, the main athletic training room and office space for EMUs sports medicine staff is located on the arena level as are strength and conditioning facilities and equipment rooms. 360 Center Stage Athletic Events End Stage Arena Floor 170 x 12020,000 Sq, ft. Arena Floor 131 x 7910,000 Sq. Ft. Atrium 66 x 1037,000 Sq, senior forward Glenn Bryant tweeted his frustration at the small crowd, which was picked up by national media. Despite a 22-win season, EMU drew an average of 901 fans per game in 2013–14. In 2014-15, EMU chalked up 21 wins and another postseason berth, however, attendance was even lower, the Shock won game 3 and the WNBA title, 76-60, the contest was broadcast nationally on ESPN. The building serves as the home to EMU athletics and also hosts a variety of special events including concerts, conferences, graduations, fairs, trade shows, political rallies

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Swoop (Eastern Michigan University)
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Swoop is the mascot used to represent various sports organizations in the United States. Eastern Michigan University uses the mascot Swoop to represent the Eastern Michigan Eagles to represent its NCAA Division 1 Athletic program, EMU is one of several American universities use the name Swoop as their athletic program mascots. The Swoop character is depicted as an American bald eagle wearing an EMU sports jersey. Swoop is the mascot that represents Eastern Michigan University, the athletics teams are nicknamed the Eagles. The Eagles name was adopted on May 22,1991. In 1994, EMU adopted Swoop as the mascot for the university